Deborah’s Reviews > The Bone Clocks > Status Update

While I initially resisted the inclusion of EB's detailed scenes of his working in Iraq - by the end of this section I realized the effect of juxtaposing this with the petty intergenerational and individual dramas of middle-class British family life. Then the focal drama of having your own child go missing in an unfamiliar place paralleling the immediacy of the unknowns in a foreign war zone, became sensible.

Again completed a section in one long sitting and went on to start the next, because these are engaging characters and a plot that leads you ahead. I was abashed to rediscover at the start of the third section, a major character (E.B.) whose name I'd evidently forgotten when it appeared in the second.

Read the first section in one sitting, plus a few pages of the second section that's a less familiar register.The Cambridge undergraduates' dialogue, a bit too rich for my knowledge base. Here and there are words or phrase whose meanings I can only gloss from context and leave at that.

The intervention from the future is quite creepy as it's described from the contemporary protagonists' understanding.